{"id":596,"date":"2026-02-24T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clubvideo.ca\/?post_type=projects&p=596"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:46:14","slug":"no-matter-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/clubvideo.ca\/en\/projects\/no-matter-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"No Matter The Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A few moments shared in the fading of a life coming to an end. <\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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After 83-year-old Ren\u00e9e breaks her ankle, she and her granddaughter Florence confront aging, dependence and time. A tender short about love across generations. While this ordeal brings them closer than ever, it inevitably confronts them with Ren\u00e9e\u2019s decline and the heartrending fragility of the time they have left.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>

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04<\/span>\/<\/span>Cr\u00e9dits<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t
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Patrick Francke-Sirois, David Francke-Robitaille, Florence Lafond<\/h4>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Ren\u00e9e Lafond Matte, Florence Lafond, Monique Lafond<\/h4>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Florence Lafond<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDirector<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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It\u2019s like pressing \u201crecord\u201d at the exact moment when the roles are reversed: when it becomes the child\u2019s turn to look after the parent. As I learn to wash my grandmother\u2019s body\u2014the same body that once so often washed me\u2014I am torn between the tenderness of the moment and the sadness of what it entails. Like a visceral desire to “put things back in order,” to become once again the five-year-old girl nestled in her grandmother\u2019s arms.<\/p>\n

This film was born from an unexpected turn in my life, a sudden pause when I became my grandmother\u2019s primary caregiver after she fractured her ankle. This new intimacy, though it brought us closer than ever, also confronted us with an unrelenting truth: while her ankle heals, my grandmother is fading. Aware of her decline, she speaks with resilience about her \u201csmall losses\u201d: the pieces of herself that fade over time, making her less lively, less alert, less quick. Where she manages to accept the inevitable, I struggle to come to terms with it. This film forced me to face a heartbreaking realization: if I was seeing her less and less, it wasn\u2019t (as I liked to tell myself) because of a busy schedule, but primarily because I found it unbearable to watch her age, slow down, and fade away. Running away was easier.<\/p>\n

This film seeks, precisely, to explore our helplessness in the face of our loved ones\u2019 decline. A window into an intimacy that is at once tender and bitter, this work soberly examines our ability to support our elders in their decline, while confronting us with the fears and vulnerabilities it awakens within ourselves. Witnessing the decline of a loved one acts like a distorted mirror, inevitably reflecting back our own mortality. This film is an invitation to reflect on how to come to terms with what will inevitably slip away from us all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t[ Read more + ]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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“In less than 15 minutes, the short film Beau temps, mauvais temps left a trail of teary eyes during Thursday\u2019s screening.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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CFIM<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaurence Dami-Houle<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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